If we stretch this idea of a Digital Twin as a “product” able to deliver value to the customer we can foresee an evolution (at stage 5 and beyond) where some companies will be in the business of creating and selling Digital Twins. This will operate as software applications running …
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Artificial Intelligence is being applied more and more, steering the enterprise daily operation. Many enterprise operation experts are pointing to a starting revolution in enterprise organisation based on AI: the DataOps, i.e. operation based on data. Mind you, every enterprise has been using data from the very beginning, data that …
Read More »Technology Predictions 2022: SRR for intelligent autonomous systems
SRR stands for Safety, Reliability and Resilence. These three characteristics are becoming crucial as we are deploying more and more autonomous intelligent systems. For a large part of the public autonomous system is associated to a self-driving car, and, indeed, that is an example of an autonomous system. However, there …
Read More »Another year is over …
On December 9th, 2021, a flaw in a software library, Log4J, was discovered. This flaw was present, at that time, in over 100 million systems all over the world. On December 10th the flaw was exploited by some hackers and within 3 days it had affected at least 830,000 systems. …
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3. Manufacturing Manufacturing has been evolving smoothly since the industrial revolution experiencing some leaps when first electrification was introduced, then computarization of tools and more recently computarization of the whole plant (RPA Robotic Process Automation, still under deployment). Additionally, we have seen leaps in processes first with the assembly line …
Read More »2025 Outlook: System wide automation – II
The Digital Transformation, DX, is moving a growing part of enterprise processes to the cyberspace. This shift has accelerated during the pandemic and companies had to “patch up” their processes to have them working in the cyberspace, This has led to increased automation, system-wide, to integrate tools and humans (employees) …
Read More »Megatrends for this decade – XL
Artificial Intelligence driving automation Many industries have adopted automation in both production, using robots – RPA: Robot Process Automation -, and document flow (process automation). This has had a significant impact on the workforce, both in terms of downsizing (activities moved from blue collars to robots and from white collars …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – Societal Scenarios IX
Automation of Everything Automation has been a sort of mantra in the last fifty years, robots and assembly lines in manufacturing, routing in telecommunication networks, automation of medical exams analyses, more recently automation in coding of software … There is hardly an area that has not been affected by automation …
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